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Unpleasant human bowling jacket Paul LePage, the governor of Maine, seems to be running around with the wrong people while he's been running Maine into the ground.

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome to our stage ... the Aroostook Watchmen!

(Marvel tried to put a graphic novel together, but the artists couldn't make the combination of Spandex and flannel shirts work.)

The remonstrances the group submitted to LePage and the legislature accused Maine's government of being unlawful, of having illegally accepted and used unconstitutional currency (anything other than gold and silver), and of coordinating with UNESCO, UNICEF, NATO, and the UN to deprive Americans of their property rights. (Ed. Note: Agenda 21! The Secret UN Plan To Steal All Our Golfs!) An e-mail sent to the governor's office by Constitutional Coalition spokesperson Phil Merletti, along with the remonstrance document, declared that legislators who had violated their oaths in this way were committing treason and domestic terrorism. He suggested that they listen to the Aroostook Watchmen radio show for more information.

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By all means, do so.

When discussing Senate President Justin Alfond and House Speaker Mark Eves, both Democrats, McCarthy apparently claimed that they were guilty of "high treason" and noted that the penalty for treason hadn't changed in a hundred years. "I never said it, but the governor said it. I never opened my mouth and said the word," explained McCarthy. "The governor looked at us and looked at his buddy and said, 'They're talking about hanging them.'" (The "buddy" was apparently a member of LePage's legal staff.) According to McCarthy, at another point in the conversation, when discussing federal funding, LePage said, "If I go any further with this bill, with this refusal to accept federal money, they will surround this building and kill me." "I believe he thinks that literally, absolutely literally. I said if you call we will come and defend you," said McCarthy on his show.

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LePage has issued a denial. But the Republicans have been playing footsie with this stuff out in the states for decades now. On a local level, from which they draw the state legislators, who are the Triple-A ballclub for the Congresses to come, courting dangerous indigenous fauna can be good politics. However, that process long has been the roasted monkey brains through which the national party has acquired the prion disease that is currently eating through its brain. Among sane people, this ordinarily would be seen as a problem.